On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:33 -0500, Rod Adams wrote:
Aaron Sherman wrote:
In reviewing S29 as it stands now, I see that many builtins both receive
and return boxed basic types.
My thoughts on writing it were:
The boxed version is the specification, in that the language must
support
In reviewing S29 as it stands now, I see that many builtins both receive
and return boxed basic types. This seems like potentially spurious
overhead in some situations, while essential in others, so I wanted to
work out a set of rules for when boxed vs. unboxed types would be used
in core routines
Aaron Sherman wrote:
In reviewing S29 as it stands now, I see that many builtins both receive
and return boxed basic types. This seems like potentially spurious
overhead in some situations, while essential in others, so I wanted to
work out a set of rules for when boxed vs. unboxed types would be
